Quotes About Agreement

Difference is not the opposite of harmony but its condition.

Let's go somewhere in private and try to resolve this." "Let's talk this over and find a suitable compromise." "I'd like to hear how you saw the situation so that I better understand.

Here's how you see the issue: ________. And here's how I see it: ________. Let's see where we can come together on this." "Since we don't agree why this happened, let's lay out the facts and come up with a solution we both can live with.

Why don't we each state our viewpoints? Then we'll see if we can find common ground." "We need to resolve this somehow. The only way to do that is for each of us to be flexible and try to come together.

To me it wasn't trivial. Do you have a few minutes now? I'd like to talk this over and find an agreeable solution. (compromise) Let's go into the conference room where we can talk in private." After closing the door, Kate said: "Why don't we try to look at the situation from each other's viewpoint? That may help us find an agreeable solution." (compromise)

The ideal human agreement is one in which distinctions of race and color and religion are totally disregarded;

like attracts like.

Life is a helluva lot more fun if you say yes rather than no

Chemists all agree on the fundamental facts of chemistry.

For a German and a Finn, the truth is the truth. In Japan and Britain it is all right if it doesn't rock the boat. In China there is no absolute truth. In Italy it is negotiable.

Science is interesting, and if you don't agree you can fuck off. Note: Dawkins was quoting a former editor of New Scientist Magazine, who is as yet unidentified (possibly Jeremy Webb)

Science is interesting, and if you don't agree you can fuck off. Note : Dawkins was quoting a former editor of New Scientist Magazine, who is as yet unidentified (possibly Jeremy Webb)

Serious disputes are seldom resolved without a genuine change in the parties' thinking. And a false consensus may be more productive of conflict than an honest disagreement.

People hated to take their disagreements to the President; it was as though a failure to agree somehow reflected badly on each of them, and consensus, rather than clarity, was often the highest goal of the process.

In fact, it's Douggie's growing conviction that the greatest flaw of the species is its overwhelming tendency to mistake agreement for truth. Single biggest influence on what a body will or won't believe is what nearby bodies broadcast over the public band. Get three people in the room and they'll decide that the law of gravity is evil and should be rescinded because one of their uncles got shit-faced and fell off the roof.

Enlightenment is a shared enterprise. It needs some other voice saying, You are not wrong. . . .

the greatest flaw of the species is its overwhelming tendency to mistake agreement for truth.

In fact, it's Douggie's growing conviction that the greatest flaw of the species is its overwhelming tendency to mistake agreement for truth.

fact, it's Douggie's growing conviction that the greatest flaw of the species is its overwhelming tendency to mistake agreement for truth.

It is agreed between us First, that we will never use this agency against each other. Secondly, that we will not use it against third parties without each other's consent. Thirdly, that we will not either of us communicate any information about Tube Alloys to third parties except by mutual consent.

God is not in competition with reality, but in full cooperation with it.

he always had the last word in all differences of opinion with his wife, and that—two words, actually—was, "Yes, dear.

Later in life, he was fond of remarking, rather ruefully, that he always had the last word in all differences of opinion with his wife, and that—two words, actually—was, "Yes, dear.

See here, for our comfort, a sweet agreement of all three persons: the Father giveth a commission to Christ; the Spirit furnisheth and sanctifieth to it; Christ himself executeth the office of a Mediator. Our redemption is founded upon the joint agreement of all three persons of the Trinity.